The Bride (Gelin)

Ömer Lütfi Akad wrote and directed Gelin (The Bride), a Turkish drama released on 1 April 1973. It is the first part of a three-film cycle by Akad on internal migration in Turkey; Düğün and Diyet followed. Hürrem Erman's Erman Film produced this colour feature of about ninety minutes. It took three prizes, best film among them, at the fifth Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, and the Ankara Cinema Association later ranked it among the ten best Turkish films.

The story follows a large family that leaves Yozgat for Istanbul in the hope of a better life in the city. Hülya Koçyiğit plays the young bride Meryem and Kerem Yılmazer her husband Veli, while Ali Şen is the family's domineering head, Hacı İlyas; Kamran Usluer and Aliye Rona also appear. When money runs short and their child is ill, Meryem takes a factory job and tastes economic independence. The elder sees this as dishonour and pushes his son to wash away the stain. Veli waits for his wife outside the factory with a gun, but when they meet the couple embrace and walk toward a new life together.

The cinematographer was Gani Turanlı and the music is by Yalçın Tura. It centres on a woman caught between feudal habits and city life.